After cleaning out my pantry yesterday I discovered quite an appalling quantity of bow-tie pasta and was hoping someone might have some ideas for how to use it.

I also have some asparagus that needs to be used up and plenty of frozen chicken breasts. I own pretty much every spice and condiment ever invented (well the common ones anyway) so I have a lot of seasoning options. I'm sure I could find something on Allrecipes.com but I thought it would be fun to get some ideas from the masses.

My mom always used bowtie pasta when she made her version of ragu. She basically used leftover beef, cut it up in cubes, fried it with onions and then added some beef stock. She then, let that reduce and threw some cooked bowtie pasta in let that simmer for another minute or two. It was comfort food at its best.